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Sweeping Restructuring At Team17 Could See The Expulsion Of A Third Of Its Employees
Early this month, Team17, a British video game developer and publisher headquartered in Wakefield, England, announced a restructuring drive.
Early this month, Team17, a British video game developer and publisher headquartered in Wakefield, England, announced a restructuring drive.
Disney executives want to get ahead in the video game industry. They want to leapfrog through the growth process by acquiring Electronic Arts or a company on that scale.
According to an IGN report, more than 100 Avalanche Studios developers have joined Unionen, the Swedish trade union. The increasing call for video game workers to unionize intensified this year following the brazen layoffs in the industry.
After CD Projekt Red announced the third round of layoffs, the staff of the company formed a union as a means of “improving their workplace/industry standards in a way that has legal power and amplifies their voice”.
According to an IGN report, the former HR manager at Bungie is suing the studio for wrongful dismissal following her handling of a potential racial discrimination issue.
The Australian Game Developer Awards (AGDAs) 2023 has come and gone but the winners will savor the memories for a long time to come. The biggest winner at the event was Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical developed by Summerfall Studios.
For a sector worth billions of dollars, Africa’s gaming industry is too big to be ignored. If properly harnessed, Africa’s gaming industry can become the new oil for a continent burdened with external debts.
The breakthrough in AI technology has been phenomenal, but it has also come with its own curse. Backed by AI, one person can now do the job that was previously done by 5 people. Consequently, the jobs of video game illustrators are being run over by AI in China. It […]
A wave of mass layoffs has hit the tech industry following dwindling revenue and projections of a global recession—and the gaming industry is not immune. The latest is Microsoft’s plans to lay off 10,000 employees as a means of cutting costs. The company made this known through a security filing […]
To date, Payday 2 sees more daily concurrent players than Payday 3 and it will be interesting to see how Starbreeze turns the numbers.